fascinating how much media coverage a handful of right-wing protesters can get

[unblock]

roughly the same, maybe slightly more, than a million liberals marching on washington, it seems....

[redstatebluegirl]

1. Ugly angry people get more press than people who are peace filled and compassionate

because it sells, it is like watching a car wreck.

[RVN VET71]

14. Point well taken

We need to get a few thousand ugly angry people in our ranks, maybe marching with pictures of Marx and calling for the destruction of capitalism and capitalists when we march. We also have to get rid of that "compassionate" stuff. Compassion doesn't sell.

And a bunch of Stalinist robots screaming bloody murder would get the same treatment that the Republican-Trump loving Nazis and KKK Supremacists get in the media.

But nooooo. We have to march for peace and love and justice and equality. Boring stuff for a media that needs anger and nastiness to feed to the lowest common denominator of its viewers.

[redstatebluegirl]

15. I am fine being compassionate and boring.

[RVN VET71]

16. Me too.

[NCDem47]

2. When watching media

and I see coverage of a handful of people congregating to make news, in my head I think the copy should be read to say, "Today, dozens of people showed up to..."

[Walleye]

3. Astroturfing is a graft roots movement

[Marrah_Goodman]

4. They should not be covering them at all.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Partly it is because it is like watching a slow motion train wreck. Lots of looky-loos

Watching stupid people injure themselves is somehow more captivating than watching intelligent people peacefully protest a Mango Mussolini.

[get the red out]

6. Like the damned Tea Party

Apparently well-armed astro-turfers are so much more significant to the media than a million peaceful protesters marching against this despot and chief.

[abqtommy]

7. It doesn't fascinate or surprise me that right-wing media would support right-wing protesters.

[Midnight Writer]

8. This is a strategy known as "the limited hangout".

Give the audience something shocking to gawk at so they will ignore the real perfidy going on behind the scenes.

[KS Toronado]

9. When in the HELL

are we going to see our politicians insist on everyone wear a mask in public? Countries with the lowest infection rates per population require this. Want to get back to work and see all businesses open back up, then call/email all your politicians....city/state/national.

[pecosbob]

10. How Fox News Is Supercharging the Coronavirus Protests

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/04/how-fox-news-is-supercharging-the-coronavirus-protests/

[JCMach1]

11. Much More

[Caliman73]

12. Actually, it is status quo.

Despite the "liberal bias" claimed by right wingers, Right wing framing is often much more visible in the news. Right wing politicians get more airtime than Democratic Politicians.

Journalists are by far, more likely to have progressive/liberal beliefs, however, the higher ups and especially the owners of the media companies are typically wealthy and promote a more corporate/conservative friendly agenda.

Showing people protesting FOR the status quo is a much more desirable thing to showing people advocating for a paradigm shift when it come to money.

[gratuitous]

13. It's not the coverage per se

It's the ultra-respectful hearing these nincompoops are getting. No criticism, no analysis, just lots of sidewalk level photos of clustered dumbfucks without any context like this:

Link to tweet

Doesn't look like quite so impressive a gathering now, does it?